Professor Michelle Alexopoulos Department of Economics University of Toronto 150 St. George Street Toronto, ON M5S 3G7 CANADA phone: (416) 978-4962 fax: (416) 978-6713 e-mail: malex@chass.utoronto.ca

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Research on Growth and Technical Change

Publications

• Growth and unemployment in a shirking efficiency wage model, Canadian Journal of Economics (2003), 728-746.
• Extra! Extra! Some positive technology shocks are expansionary!, Economics Letters 101(3) (2008), 153-156.
• Read all about it!! What Happens following a technology shock?, forthcoming American Economic Review
• Measuring our ignorance, one book at a time: New indicators of technological change, 1909-1949, with J. Cohen Journal of Monetary Economics 56(4) (2009), 450-470.

working paper version found here. Formerly titled “Believe it or Not!! The 1930s was a technologically progressive decade”

Current Working Papers

• Management Matters with T. Tombe supplemental materials available here
• The Media is the measure: Technical change and employment, 1909-49, with J. Cohen
• Volumes of Evidence Examining technical change last century through a new lens, with J. Cohen

Downloadable Presentations

OCLC lecture: The Medium is the Measure: Library Collections as Indicators of Economic Changes (audio and slides available here)

Work in Progress

• The Power of Print
• Management Matters in Canada too, with T. Tombe
• Volumes of Evidence Canadian Edition, with J. Cohen
• One Shock, Two Shocks, Three Shocks, Four …